How I stopped feeling Anxious around Money with this Simple Mindset Shift.
It is so easy for our emotions to get carried away with the least important stuff in life.
When we set off to a new venture in life, and decide to put all our efforts in the first month, and we sit back and expect loads and trucks of appreciations to bestow upon us.
Which in most cases is completely unrealistic, but our inner child doesn’t understand the difference, Our emotions reflect what we as children would expect.
Hence, it become really important to direct our emotions in the right way so our work doesn’t get affected by them.
Handling emotions is like handling a toddler within us. It may cry anytime and be cheerful the very next moment.
It is okay to sometimes enjoy the little joys and victories along with our inner child. But it becomes crucial to become to adult and handle the fluctuations of our innocent emotions, because we after all live in a world of Practicality.
Numbers, would fluctuate, Money fluctuates too, and letting our feelings and emotions fluctuate with it, will exhaust us mentally very soon.
Hence it is important to detach at the earliest from these factors that aren’t stable.
When I was in college, I used to get pocket money from mom. Which was around 2 thousand, to 5 thousand rupees that depended on how much she should provide. And staying with my friends in a hostel, it was very common for us to spend on unnecessary things all the time. The cheap stuff made us excited, I Havo no idea why. But it was somehow a win if we bought a 300 rupees kurta from the street stall, which was ideally being sold for 500 rupees. In anyway the kurta was not going to last for even 3 months, we didn’t mind the threads coming out but the satisfaction of bargaining couldn’t excite us more.
So, I have roamed on those streets with my purse completly empty on a month end, and carrying the fear of asking for more money, but u still accompanied my friend for her shopping, she had her savings luckily.
But that day, I realised, this should never be a reason for me to feel upset, if the paper notes could just vanish from my savings, that doesn’t have to take my happiness along with it.
That was when I decided that,
No matter How the Money dances in my bank account, I will not let my emotions be its dancing partner.
I will not attach my emotions to a highly fluctuating thing like Money.
That was the beginning of me regulating my emotions and detaching it from anything that breaks equilibrium.
I decided to assign a New meaning to Happiness and satisfaction, like feeding Strays, or just enjoying a meal, or a walk across beautiful streets.
Just a shift in perspective helped me be more calm and composed and enjoy the little but important things in life.
Let me know in the comments about your story of Re-defining Happiness.
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